“AMAZING”

—   Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and bestselling author of Thinking Fast & Slow

“ABSOLUTELY RIVETING”

—   Brian Christian, best-selling author of Algorithms to Live By and The Alignment Problem

"FABULOUS”

—  Joseph LeDoux, New York University, best-selling author of Anxious

A Brief History of Intelligence

Equal parts Sapiens, Behave, and Superintelligence, but wholly original in scope, A Brief History of Intelligence offers a paradigm shift for how we understand neuroscience and AI. Max Bennett chronicles the five “breakthroughs” in the evolution of human intelligence and reveals what brains of the past can tell us about the AI of tomorrow. 

  • “If you are interested in understanding brains or in building human-like general AI, you should read this book.”

    —  Dileep George, DeepMind, Cofounder of Vicarious AI

About Max

MAX BENNETT is an entrepreneur and researcher. He has cofounded multiple AI companies, holds several patents for AI technologies, and has published numerous scientific papers on the topics of evolutionary neuroscience and intelligence. He has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list as well as the Built In NYC’s 30 Tech Leaders Under 30. Most notably, Bennett was the cofounder and Chief Product Offi­cer of Bluecore, one of the fastest growing companies in the U.S., providing AI technologies to some of the largest companies in the world. Bluecore has been featured in the annual Inc. 500 fastest growing com­panies, as well as Glassdoor’s 50 best places to work in the U.S. Bluecore was recently valued at over $1 bil­lion. Bennett graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, summa cum laude, with a degree in economics and mathematics.